Analyzing Foreign Policy

by Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen (Contributor)

The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis to explain, predict and evaluate what states and other collective actors want, how they make decisions, and key determinants of state security, diplomatic, and economic foreign policies. Providing a broad set of theoretical tools for analysing foreign policy, and including increased coverage of methodology, this new edition provides students with the skills to undertake their own foreign policy analysis.

306 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2012

Reviews

[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

The last chapter is the gem of the book along with the well-written literature reviews on the multitude of foreign policy approaches. Part III (What States Do) was somewhat less useful and seemed the least comprehensive to me, but it didn't detract from the overall utility of the work.